"Yet here is the rub for us as gay people: we have a choice. Unlike most minority groups, many of us have the option of 'passing', of playing the game, of seeking to become, or to remain part of the included. Sometimes this seems a matter of survival - but there is a deep seduction here too." Michael B Kelly, Seduced By Grace.

Monday, November 27, 2006

Traffic directing

To avoid accusations of wallowing, I thought I'd better change the subject from our failed babymaking attempt. Every now and then (I don't want you to think I spend too much time thinking about blogging when I'm not actually doing it; that would be just over the top) I muse on how I would really like to share my favourite bloggers, in particular:

Katya, you'd really like ThirdCat - essential reading for any smart stay-at- home mother of young boys. Heather, you'd like it too, but you're new to blogland so it may be too much of a leap (Katya - you remember Heather, my best friend from high school, fantastic musician, I shared that house in Sth Yarra with her? And Heather - Katya was my best friend from uni - you met her a few times. Heather has three boys, some of whom I think are the same age as yours K.)

Mel & Mona, you need to head over to Comicstriphero - sarky Canberra dyke who watches way too much Idol

Danny you must check out Beware of the God - as a fellow survivor of extremely religious parents you'll understand my fascination with keeping track of the latest ridiculous activities of those of a Higher Spiritual Path. You'll also like Rodney Croome's blog for updates on gay rights stuff all around Australia, although he can come across, Phillip Adams style, as a tad self-important - but I guess that's okay, he has had a huge impact on gay & lesbian rights in Australia.

Lovergirl have a look at Personal Political - she's kind of my role model for how I want to be by the time I'm fifty - smart, confident, informed and opinionated, not to mention parenting! If you get a chance check out Elsewhere too, she's the Alice ashtanga yogini creative writing triathlete, I bet you know people in common...six degrees and all that. If I can't become Susoz at PP, I want to be El, okay? Consider yourself warned.

Hilary - did I mention how impressed I was by your speech at the HREOC inquiry into gay & lesbian rights? Stunned into silence, I was; I haven't heard you in full flight before. Try Pavlov's Cat; you'll like her style. She pulls everything apart with a few pithy observations.

And Grey, of course it has to be Larvateus Prodeo & Global Voices - a left-leaning commentary on Australian politics and a hub of international bloggers.

2 comments:

oh really? You shock me. I watched part of the final on Sunday night, having just arrived at my hotel room thus having no friends thus flicking though tv channels - felt like a right loser watching Idol and had to turn it off not long after they all walked, self-consciously singing, up the steps of the Opera House with all those fireworks going off...I just didn't get it.

Mind you I must confess I did get addicted to the show when they picked that girlband - bardot - so I do understand the sucked-in-ness that happens. And I was pretty taken with Operatunity. But Idol...it's always struck me as being kind of, well, juvenile. But EVERYONE I KNOW watches it. Strange.